Word: chung
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Less Than 1000%. South Korea's President Chung Hee Park was as determined as Kim. Seoul began to augment its regular forces by 15,000, announced it would arm 2,500,000 reservists and veterans. After Pueblo was seized last month, the U.S. began bringing its two divisions in the South up to their full 50,000-man strength, flew in planes to three Korean airbases, and promised to speed delivery of $30 million worth of military equipment designed to combat infiltration from the North. In addition, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for an immediate military aid appropriation...
Hardening Line. In the Pueblo affair, despite a general willingness to give diplomacy a chance to work, pressure mounted swiftly for a retaliatory strike. The Navy, some said, wanted to bomb the Wonsan MIG base. South Korean Premier Chung II Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
Last week, just two days before the Pueblo's seizure, North Korea made the most brazen incursion into South Korea to date. From its subversion camps, it dispatched 31 North Korean agents into the South in a meticulously planned attempt to assassinate South Korean President Chung Hee Park. Their orders: make their way into the Blue House residence of the President in Seoul, cut off Park's head and pitch it into the street. The attack marked the first time since the Korean armistice in 1953 that a large number of North Korean terrorists had had the audacity...
...Johnson also had a rare chance to meet with the leaders of the five other Viet Nam war allies, some of them for the first time since the Manila Conference 14 months ago. He conferred with South Viet Nam's President Thieu, South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and New Zealand's Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. He also saw British Prime Minister Harold Wilson...